"Portrait of Thomas Alexander Erskine, 6th Earl of Kellie, three-quarter length, seated to right in an armchair, glancing towards the viewer, his right arm on chair arm and the left on his lap; wearing short wig, open coat, waistcoat fastened with five buttons, neckerchief and frill."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title engraved below image., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark resulting in loss of imprint statement from bottom edge. Imprint supplied from impression in the British Museum, registration no.: 1914,0317.5., Mounted to 51 x 36 cm., Mounted opposite page 468 (leaf numbered '74' in pencil) in volume 3 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Moore, T. Memoirs of the life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan., and Contemporary ink annotation "367" in lower right corner.
Publisher:
Publish'd as the act directs, Feby. 12th, 1782, by R. Blyth, No. 27 Great Castle Street, Cavendish Square
Subject (Name):
Kelly, Thomas Alexander Erskine, Earl of, 1732-1781,
"Caricature head of Lord Kelly in profile to the right. He is bending forward, his face bloated and pimpled, his lank and scanty hair in a black bag."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title and printmaker from British Museum catalogue. and LWL 780.06.01.04: Subject identified as "Ld. North" in contemporary ms. hand, possibly Horace Walpole's hand.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Kelly, Thomas Alexander Erskine, Earl of, 1732-1781, and North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792.
